File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1994/marxism.Jul12-Aug17.94, message 190


From: SUBTILE-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 94 14:28:55 EDT
Subject: malthus


Malthus receives an interesting treatment in David McNally's _Against the
Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism, and the Marxist Critique_.
 According to McNally, Malthus was the major flagwaver for the ruling classes
at the beginning of the 19th century.  Malthus' political economy attempted
to turn political economy into a pure weapon of the ruling classes by
purifying Adam Smith's doctrines of capitalism of any impulse to social
improvement and by denying any "right of subsistence" to the working classes
or their children.  McNally also tries to show how Malthus contradicts
himself time and time again.
-Samuel Day Fassbinder




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